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KERALA MAY SEEK WHO HELP TO BATTLE NIPAH   ( HEALTH) 👉Why in news Health officials in the state of Kerala say ten people have died in confirmed and suspected cases of the deadly Nipah virus. The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has declared a third major outbreak of the disease in the country. The State government is reportedly planning to involve the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the diagnosis and preventive work 👉About the disease Nipah virus (NiV) infection is a newly emerging zoonosis that causes severe disease in both animals and humans. The natural host of the virus are fruit bats of the Pteropodidae Family, Pteropus genus. NiV was first identified during an outbreak of disease that took place in Kampung Sungai Nipah, Malaysia in 1998. Nearly 300 human cases with over 100 deaths were reported in that outbreak. In order to stop it, more than a million pigs were euthanized, causing tremendous trade loss for Malaysia NiV infection in humans has...

💥 Daily Word Bytes - 2  from editorial  -Victory amid violence: on West Bengal panchayat elections 💥 amid (preposition) – in the middle of, surrounded by; during. Hindu Editorial usage  :  Victory amid violence: on West Bengal panchayat elections sweep (noun) – an instance of winning every contest. Hindu Editorial usage  :  Trinamool Congress’s sweep in the West Bengal panchayat polls comes at a high cost cost (noun) – loss, damage, suffering. Hindu Editorial usage  :  Trinamool Congress’s sweep in the West Bengal panchayat polls comes at a high cost conjecture (noun) – opinion, conclusion, idea/notion. Hindu Editorial usage  :  The exact scale of the ruling Trinamool Congress’s victory in the May 14 panchayat elections in West Bengal is still a matter of conjecture, as the fate of the uncontested seats is before the Supreme Court. tier (noun) – level, step, grade (of a structure/system). Hindu Editorial usage ...

💥 Daily Word Bytes - 1  from editorial  -Miles to go for the new bankruptcy code 💥 miles (noun) – a very long way. Hindu Editorial usage  :  Miles to go for the new bankruptcy code bankruptcy (noun) – legal state of insolvency. An individual or organisation is declared bankrupt if a court judges that the party involved can no longer meet debt payments to creditors. it is defined as the outcome of a legal procedure. Hindu Editorial usage  :  Miles to go for the new bankruptcy code insolvency (noun) – a condition in which the financial difficulties of an individual or organisation are such it is unable to pay its debts. Hindu Editorial usage  :  Tata Steel acquired 73% stake in the bankrupt firm Bhushan Steel for about ₹35,000 crore last week, making it the first major resolution of a bankruptcy case under the new Insolvency and Bankruptcy   yield (verb) – produce, give, provide. Hindu Editorial usage  :  The new ba...

👉The autonomy of the teacher has been cramped, and it reflects in the state of higher education👈 Some months ago, a global leader of the IT industry set sections of India’s corporate-sector elite aflutter with the comment that Indians are not creative. It is possible to disagree with the criterion Steve Wozniak, a co-founder of Apple Computer, had adopted while at the same time agreeing with some of his observations. He had predicted that Indians are unlikely to create world-leading IT companies because they lack the creativity to do so and argued that this has to do with the education system. While building global IT giants may have more to do with an appetite for growing a business rather than anything else, Mr. Wozniak’s assessment of India’s education system is sharp. He traced the lack of creativity to an education system that rewarded studiousness over independent thought. He also managed an anthropological take when he identified the ‘MBA and the Merc’ as the mark of s...

👉The new bankruptcy code yields its first success, but many wrinkles remain👈 Good news has finally started to roll out of the refurbished bankruptcy courts. Tata Steel acquired 73% stake in the bankrupt firm Bhushan Steel for about ₹35,000 crore last week, making it the first major resolution of a bankruptcy case under the new Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). Bhushan Steel was one among the 12 major accounts referred to the National Company Law Tribunal at the behest of the Reserve Bank of India last year to ease the burden of bad loans on banks. The proceeds from the acquisition will go towards settling almost two-thirds of the total outstanding liabilities of over ₹56,000 crore that Bhushan Steel owes banks. While it may be unwise to read too much into a single case, the Bhushan Steel resolution is nevertheless an encouraging sign for banks because they typically manage to recover only about 25% of their money from defaulters. In fact, between April 2014 and September 2017...